English Composition: A Visual Analysis of Cartoon 4.3
This paper will describe how cartoon 4.3 is effective for moral and ethical purposes. The overweight patient and doctor (a symbol of gluttony and laziness), the grim urban sprawl beneath the suicidal patient, and the foreboding image of death all provoke a loss of moral and ethical behavior due to the advent of assisted suicide in Oregon. By creating a satire on the medical communitys loss of the Hippocratic Oath, surely the carton is effective by presenting dark humor.
